Bob Lord Joins Yahoo as New Chief Information Security Officer

Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) announced today that Bob Lord will join as the Company’s Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). Lord brings more than twenty years of significant experience in the information security space, including most recently as the CISO-in-Residence at Rapid 7. Prior to that, Lord led Twitter’s information security program and held positions in product and information security at companies like Red Hat, AOL, and Netscape.

Yahoo is committed to protecting their users’ security and maintaining their users’ trust. Yahoo offers users encrypted products, provides an end-to-end encryption plugin on GitHub for Yahoo Mail, offers two-factor authentication, and recently launched Yahoo Account Key, which allows users a fast and secure way to access their Yahoo accounts.

Lord will lead Yahoo’s security team -- known as the Paranoids -- in offensive and defensive protection of the Company’s more than one billion users around the world, and for Yahoo’s employees globally. Lord will work closely across all of the Company’s teams and collaboratively within the industry to ensure that Yahoo continues to provide the highest level of security possible to their users.

Stay tuned for updates from Lord around Yahoo’s continued efforts to protect user security.

About Yahoo

Yahoo is a guide focused on informing, connecting, and entertaining our users. By creating highly personalized experiences for our users, we keep people connected to what matters most to them, across devices and around the world. In turn, we create value for advertisers by connecting them with the audiences that build their businesses. Yahoo is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and has offices located throughout the Americas, Asia Pacific (APAC) and the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) regions. For more information, visit the pressroom (pressroom.yahoo.net) or the Company's blog (yahoo.tumblr.com).

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